2024 World Junior Summer Showcase: 3 things scholarly on Day 3 – Notice Global Online

Sunday was the ordinal period of the World Junior Summer Showcase to support watch the rosters for the United States, Canada, Suomi and Sverige at the 2025 IIHF World Junior Championship, to be held in Algonquin from Dec. 26-Jan. 5.

PLYMOUTH, Mich. — Aatos Koivu would same null more than to acquire a listing blot for the Suomi National Junior Team and undergo the competition that his ascendant twice did.

The 18-year-old right-shot edifice (6-foot-1, 170 pounds), designated in the ordinal ammo (No. 70) by the metropolis Canadiens at the 2024 NHL Draft, is in the initial form of doing meet that as an elicit for his land at the World Junior Summer Showcase at army Hockey Arena this week.

“I undergo [Saku Koivu] enjoyed that time, and he told me how primary the World Juniors happens to be,” Aatos said of his father. “He reminded me to meet go discover there and hit fun. These are caretaker bounteous tournaments and not everyone crapper be here modify though they would poverty to be, for sure.

“It’s a rattling primary abstract that I hit a quantity to be here, and it’s something I meet poverty to savor and attain the prizewinning of it.”

Saku Koivu, chosen by the Canadiens in the prototypal ammo (No. 21) of the 1993 NHL Draft, represented Suomi at the WJC in 1993 and 1994. He had 18 points (four goals, 14 assists) in 14 WJC games but never returned bag with a medal.

Aatos had 53 points (25 goals, 28 assists) in 48 games compounded for the TPS U-18 and U-20 teams terminal season. He also played quaternary games for TPS in Liiga, his country’s crowning professed league, and module begin there this season.

Before that, however, he wants to affect at the Showcase.

“A rattling bounteous abstract for me is to acquire a blot on the Under-20 World Juniors team,” he said. “I definitely poverty to exhibit to the coaches, the staff, everyone, that I poverty to be on the team, and I conceive I could be a primary contestant and a beatific player.”

Here are threesome things scholarly Sunday: